From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 28 07:25:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA00318 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 07:25:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from srv.net (snake.srv.net [199.104.81.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA00307 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 07:25:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from darkstar.home (dialin1.anlw.anl.gov [141.221.254.101]) by srv.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA29893; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 08:25:15 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 07:24:35 -0700 (MST) From: Charles Mott X-Sender: cmott@darkstar.home To: matn@onthenet.com.au cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ubanle to boot In-Reply-To: <3222E553.A9AEB201@onthenet.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 27 Aug 1996, Mat Naismith wrote: > Hi.. > > I have freebsd 2.2.2 installed on partition 1 second drive. > > Today i boot my computer only to find that in the Booteasy menu i get > ???? in the list.. I press enter, it sais no bootable partition. ??? I have FreeBSD installed on the second drive as you do. What I have found is that Booteasy needs to be installed on both drives, and during bootup, it runs twice, first on drive 1 then on drive 2. I know this is heretical, but I have thought about trying to port LILO from linux to freebsd. Charles Mott